OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BELL, June 24, 1966:
This is an appeal from a denial by the Court of Common Pleas, without a hearing, of a petition for habeas corpus. On March 1, 1960, relator pleaded guilty to murder generally, while represented by two Court-appointed counsel. He was sentenced to ten to twenty years in prison after the Court en banc fixed the crime at second degree murder.
The facts of the homicide were as follows:
On August 28, 1959...
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